eggsbenedict

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by eggsbenedict 2y ago
Yup. This isn't news. This site has a hateful obsession with all things crypto. I think it's driven by a mixture of frustration at the irrationality of markets and bitterness about missing the boat.
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
Yeah, and McDonald's is one of the most popular restaurants. Doesn't say much about the quality of restaurants in general. There's a lot of a wildly good, life-changing fiction out there. A couple hints: Almost all fantasy is
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
Nazi Russia? Not once, but twice?
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
And the war on privacy continues. Legislators have a bad habit of creating intentionally vague laws that have almost unlimited discretionary scope. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
Interesting story. From the headline, I thought this was going to be a culture-war type of article. I wasn't expecting evidence of a real cult.
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
>A government that does not respect the bodily autonomy of women isn't going to respect privacy for too long if it enables the former. For the record, I don't have a problem with abortion. Obviously I think it should be a last
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
That's terrible! Can this be allowed to continue?
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
So, to get this straight, the working definition here for "socially conservative" is anyone who steals things or exploits others, regardless of whether they support gay rights or vote democrat. Yeah, in that light, these social co
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
>Somehow I find albini's version too toyed with (some instruments pops out at times) I'm a professional record producer and songwriter. Here are my thoughts: Very likely it's the other way around. Albini is notoriously har
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by eggsbenedict 4y ago
Why is the terminology always that the US gets to "punish" everyone else? It reeks of American exceptionalism and misguided paternalism, not to mention dubiously claimed moral high ground. Russia has clearly made a tragic error by
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by eggsbenedict 5y ago
No, I was specifically responding to the person who said that it was "cool" that governments used covid resstrictions as a pretext for running "social experiments." I am specifically quoting an individual, not creating a
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by eggsbenedict 5y ago
>many countries took the opportunity to run large-scale social experiments under the guise of Covid Restrictions Regardless of how you define tyranny, how can you be so blithely supportive of rule-by-decree in supposed democracies? Espec
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by eggsbenedict 5y ago
How do you explain the prices of Class-C shares which don't bestow voting rights to the holder? For example, GOOG trades for over 2000 a share. In fact, it even trades at a $50 premium over GOOGL, which offers voting rights. Strange.
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Polkadot: Blockchains, Rules, and Reciprocity(medium.com)
1 points by eggsbenedict 6y ago|0 comments
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by eggsbenedict 6y ago
This implementation produced almost no useful answers. One of the 'Friendly No' outputs contained this sentence: "No, I'm sorry I can't attend the meeting because the topic is ridiculous" Which is about as unfr
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by eggsbenedict 6y ago
Weird definition of uber successful. They'll probably have steady employment but their mental health/personal anguish is probably distributed similarly to the rest of the population
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by eggsbenedict 6y ago
Same experience. What's the point of a message board where you can't read the posts?
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by eggsbenedict 6y ago
So, as of this comment, all I know is that Simon Sinek has a book called The Infinite Game. This book has an interesting premise, about which I just read a short writeup and analysis. I have also been told that Sinek has excellent presentat
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by eggsbenedict 7y ago
I loved this book It's not exactly science - but it's very stimulating. It guides you through a wide variety of historical, scientific, and literary sources, painting a picture of contemporary human consciousness evolving right be